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VOL. XVI. A«hin<* has com* o’er the spirit of our dream, WIIKREFOKKf Our readers will observe that The News this day awakes from Rip Van Winkle slumbers and looks abroad upon the activities'and interests de¬ manding its aid. It sees Toccoa in¬ creasing hi prosperity, and rapidly ad¬ vancing in population and wealth. It observes the energy, enterprise and pluck of its business men, contem¬ plates its present and future possibili¬ ties and realizes the necessity for an erergetic, wide awake paper, hence the change in the management, char¬ acter and size of the News. Though Toccoa is one one of the youngest of Georgia’s cities, it has already passed its first thousand population, and is steadily advancing towards its second; it has fine church¬ es, good schools, ware house's, hotels, substantial brick blocks, situatod at the junction of two railroa Is; one, a great trunk line connecting the large citiea of the North with those of the South; it is nearly in the centre of the great Piedmont belt, destined to in¬ clude within its borders the most ex¬ tensive manufacturing industries in the United States, some of which will be within the limits of Toccoa and in the immediate surrounding country. * * * * Toccoa is situatod near the borders of two States, and is the business centre of several counties in each State, embracing some of the richest agricultural lands in the South;mar.v thousands of acres of these rich lands are in virgin forrest, including im¬ mense quantities of the most valua¬ ble timber and beneath the surface mineral wealth of untold and mi — known value. Through tins country fl >\v numerous creeks and rivers af¬ fording water power for many mills and factories. * * * * It is the mission of the News to aid in developing these vast resources. It will labor to get farmers to come frou the North, and? East, West and South who will transform these forrests into fruitful fields of waving grain, grassy meadows, green pastures, with herds of cattle feeding on the hillsides and in the vallies, or¬ chards, vineyards, cosy farm houses and bams, beautifying the landscape in all directions. It will work to in¬ duce capitalists to erect mills,machine •shops, foundries and factories of va¬ rious kinds and convert into useful products the cotton, the wood and immense materials which nature lias so bountifully supplied; thus Toccoa will be, not only the centre of trade of a wide territory, but & territory rapidly increasing in wealth and pros¬ perity, itself a constantly growing, populous city. While to promote the interests of Toccoa, its best growth, interest and prosperity, together with the country- tributary, will be the great central thought and aim of the News, still it will not be confined to these narrow limits; its field will include the inter¬ ests of the State of Georgia, and the whole of this Sunny South land, in some respects the fairest and most attractive in all the earth. The News will unite hand in hand with the ef¬ forts now made by the press all over the South, in inviting immigration, especially capitalists and enterpris¬ ing people to develop the wonderful resources of this great country, and assist in solving some of the difficult financial and political problems with which the Southern people are grap¬ pling. To this end the purpose of the News is to circulate, not only within, but beyond Toccoa and the regions round about. It will seek admission in distant homes in other States and use its best endeavors to induce capitalists to come and build up manufacturing industries in Toe coa, and farmers to make the country around bloom and blossom as the rose. “I will also give mine opinion.” “What is to be the politics of the News?” This question has greeted the edi¬ tor’s ears, and it is but natural that people desire to know. In the first place it depends on •what one means by “politics.” Many good people affirm that “politics” has a demoralizing tendency. That too TE>02ET TO NEWS, TOLJTICS, AGTICVL2UTE ANT GENE UAL TltOGTESS. l>e a polititiun,one must needs consort with trickery, bribery and wade in the filth and slum, that political tac¬ tics and operations involve. Profes¬ sional politicians admit debasing in¬ fluences, ari l they warn ministers of the gospel against entering political arenas, breathing its tainted atmos¬ phere or soiling the vestments of their s-acred office with the muddy pollu¬ tions. Many believe that politics necessarily 1 eget unholy strife, bit¬ terness, envy, hatred, revenge; that it means a fight for office and spoils; th* struggle being to get the “ins” out, and “outs” in. If this be “politics” then the Mews desires to be counted out. If on the other hand, politics means good gov¬ ernment, good laws, both State and National; a fair, equitible and just treatment of all the States alike, by the Federal Government; an equita¬ ble distribution of the National funds and patronage among the States with¬ out discrimination; equal rights and priviledges to every citizen before the law, in short, whatsoever brings the greatest amount of good to 1 ; the greatest number of citizens, whatso¬ ever tends to the highest welfare of all,and promotes the best^interests of tha State and nation; if these things be politics, then the News will be a lively politician. The News accepts tho decision of the war, that all the States and Terti- tories are firmlyJunitedJn one strong nation; of which the Federal Govern¬ ment is the head. It leslieves that the Constitutional powers of that government are ofjsuch a character that all States must obey its legiti¬ mate authority. The News likewise believes that there are limitations to the Federal power; that tho severalJStates have rights over which the General Govern¬ ment has no control, and with which it cannot interfere. Inasmuch as the limitations of Federal authority are not clearly defined or understood, it will bo thegprovince of the News t>> investigate these limitations and in¬ form its readers. The people of the entire country should know the Con¬ st! uticnal limits of the general gov¬ ernment and be able to say: “Here¬ unto shalt thou come, but no farther.’ ■* * * * This is tho more important at the present time, as many have vague apprehens : ons that the incoming ad¬ ministration has power to interfere in the government of the Southern States, or enforce measures detri¬ mental to the interest of these Statos or the citizena. The News will con¬ tend that the president or congress has no such power or authority; that the experiences during the re-con- structior. period are impossible under our government, except in cases of revolution. The News makes a distinction be¬ tween politics and political parties. The one involves principles of gov¬ ernment and political economy; the others are organizations of citizens who adopt or reject formulated prin¬ ciples in “platforms,” nominate and support men for office, endeavor to pass laws in harmony with thoir doc¬ trines and influence and control gov¬ ernments State and National. Many believe parties are necessary in gov¬ ernment by the people. Of the two groat parties of our nation, the Dem- cratic party is beyond all question the party of the white people of the Southern States, and the News joins hands with the other papers of the South in sustaining that party in all laudable efforts to defend the rights and advance the interests of the Southern people. While it will earn¬ estly do this, yet it reserves the right to criticise and oppose measures it be¬ lieves to be detrimental to the inter- terests or prosperity of our citizens. In particular it will sustain all meas¬ ures for the good of Toccoa, Haber¬ sham county and the State of Geor¬ gia, and will stand by and uphold the the officers in the faithful of their respective duties. Capk John Milledge. State libra- nian, is sending to each of the 137 or¬ dinaries of Georgia, a copy of tho last Georgia reports and statistics of the last session of Congees. Romt is to have a new rolling mill. The Toccoa News. t TOCCOA, GA., FRIDAY, JA 11 1889 . OUR COUNTRY. A colored RomanXJatholic conven¬ tion met last week in Washington,D. C., the first of the kind in the history of the world. They called upon the President in a body, who shook hands with each, and gave them encoura- ging words. The Electric Refining Company is gigantic fraud. Henry C. Friend has swindled confiding capitalists out of a quarter of million of dollars and fled. During 1888 there were 1,079 mercantile failuresf^the liabilities averaged £11,509. During the last week in December there were 387 failures, the highest number ever re- corded in this same period in this Florida fruit growers are h a ppj } the railroads have reduced the rates on oranges, the crop is heavy and the orange growers are The jute trust is dead; cotton bag¬ ging has fallen since the new year 2 cents and is going lower. Nine telegraph cables connect Eu¬ rope and America which utalizes 113,- 000 miles of cable, The^British steamboat, Montana, which sailed from Baltimore Jan. 5, with an assorted cargo, including 214 head of cattle was sunk and is a total wreck. All the crew escaped except Chief Engineer Robert M. Young, who was killed. Smuggling opium has been carried on from Canadajfor sometime, and has reached large proportions, $ 100 000 worth being brought across the border yearly. The Washington Post has been been sold by Stilson Hutchki.ns to Frank Hatton, third Assistant Post Master General, and proprietor of the Burlington Hawkeye. The trustees of the Slater educa- cational fund have filled tho. vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice Waite, and Rev. Philip Brooks, by appointing Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, and Bishop Potter, of New York. A meeting of the Southern Quar- atine Confererence is to bo held, March 5th, at Montgomery, Ala. Delegates from all States interested are expecteJ to be present. The Attorney General of Pennsyl¬ vania has commenced suit against the Western Union and Baltnnoro & Ohio Telegraph Companies; the wric claims that by reason of the sale of latter company to the Western Union its charter line and franchises were forfeited to the State; also for the same reason, the Attornev General claims a decree of forfeiture and es¬ cheat of the property and francheses of the Western Union in that State. The total production of pig iron in the United States during the year 1888 was six millions of tons; of Bes¬ semer steel rails, 1,350,000 tons. The total importations of iron and steel were 950,000 tons. As compared with 1887, the consumption of pig iron is believed to have fallen G50,- 000 tons, and of steel rails about 800,000 tons. The prices during 1888 were less than in 1887. In the South, the capital invested in new mining and manufacturing enterprises in 1888 was $168,000,000. There were organized m the South 3,618 new interprises against 3,430 in 1887 and 1,576 in 1886, a total for three years of 8,623 besides hundreds of small indus:ries. Cotton mills have increased from 180 with 15,222 looms and 713,989 spindles in 1880, to over 300 mills with about 38,000 looms and 1,805,000 spindles. The value of cotton goods made in the South in 1880 was $21,000,000, and nearly $50,000,000 in 1888. In 1880 there were 40 cotton seed oil mills in the South; now there are 100 with $12,000,000 invested. The value of the South’s agricultural products in 1879 was $571,000,000;in 1888 $800- 000,000. The value of live stock in 1879 was $391,000,000;in 18881575,- 000,000. The products of grain rose to 625,305,000 bushels in 1888, an increase of 200,000,000 bushels, and yet some people say the South not Alton B. Carty, one of the proprie¬ tors of the Times, Frederick, Md. was publicly cowbided by Joseph D. Barker, president of the National bank of Frederick. Carter had sent to a Baltimore paper, rumor of a swindling scheme in which Barker had suffered a loss of $3,000* Amelia Hives Chanler rode lately in an ox cart through the country in the vicinity of her home, Castle Hill, cluding Va. distributing alms to the poor, in¬ $200 worth of warm blankets *nd clothing i GEORGIA. The Georgia Southern road to construct a large cotton compress in .Macon. They propose handling a great quantity of through cotton. James Price of Oconee, d earned that if he went to Athens on the sec- ond day after Christmas that he would fin } a 'draft for several bun- dred dollars awaiting him. lie went anrt found the dra't awaiting him ac- cording to his bream’ A few days ago the renters on the farm of Dr. Baker, on Pine Log creek, Bartow county, found a collapsed balloon that had just fallen from sky- ward. It is’d cacti bed as a very pretty balloon, ’ made of oilc.Uilk. measuring in bight , about . 12 fcet . ; and , the , diam- ,. cter is supposed to have been, under inflation, about 5 feet C. L. Eliott of Brunswick valuable collection of forsign stamps, passports,- foreign money, shinplast- ers and many others curiostics, which the lovers rf the curious like to gaze upon. Hie collection of stamps alone is valued at $600, and embraces every known variety, most of which are old and have long ago disappeared. Rev. A. 7. Jarrell, of North Georgia conference, relates the following rem¬ iniscences of his soldier daj’s: * On my return from the army I was caught in Sandersville, Ga, with Sherman s forces jj 'possession of the town. I w:i8 cl*plain and had on tho straps a taken capta^p— my effort rank, Ilad I been in an to elude the enemy I would have been sent to a northern prison ; so I thought it best to keep quiet. The federal officers made Ihier headquarters in f.hc house whore I staying, and. soon finding out that I was only a prcaciierJ did not molest but talked’freely with me. The pri¬ vate soldiers seeing that I was in company with the officers, of course made no attempt to interfere with my freedom, After the-federals had de¬ parted the ground was everywhere strcwiijwith corn. Some one, deplor¬ ing the waste, remarked that it was a pity it.’The the pigs were not turned upon answer came quickly ‘ : Tea. ' . but . where , are the pigs/ „ T It , is • sa.e to say that Sti• rman’s people left no sliotes inv_their wake, and the re- mark, indicating the general destmc- tion, had a touch of pethos, as well as humor.—Soldiers in battle almost in- variably . , , shoot , too , high. . , , Ocean „ Pond, Fla*.—the first engagement in which I took a part.—I noticed that the bulK-ts were lodged in the trees from th* height of four feet up. Most of the ammunition is thus waited. Very few arc calm with the shells whistling around, and the ex¬ citement is the probable cause of the bad marksmanship.’' Columbus has a new public school building for boys costing $25000. Cartersvillc is bojtning. Cap¬ italists have lately invested there sev cral hundred thousand dollars form d iron and steel companies are erecting furnaces and rolling mills and at one bound this point becomes 5the great steel center of the South. Real estate has advanced more than half a mill¬ ion of dollars in the past four months. Louisville, Ga , has a railroad pas¬ senger coach factory and lately turned out its first coach. Prohibition has carried in Oconee county by 300 majority. Atlanta citizens are laboring to establish an ineberatc asylum in Georgia• E'l-.l a Smith, ot Fannin County, died last week in the Fulton county Atlaata, where he was serving a three months sentence for making moonshine whiskey • \ The Legislature added as school! tax one half of one mill to the tax for 1S89, and one mill for 1S90, this makes 32 cents on one hundred dol¬ lars for 1888. and 34 cents on one hundred dollars for 1890, The Pvi sion for maimed Con¬ federate soldiers are about doubled hereafter. - Mrs. Sallie Twig- of hss been appointed to a $1,800 turn m the ...... interior department at W ashington. Jula Wvly, of Atlanta, has been ar¬ rested on suipieion ef being con¬ nected with the Hawes wife and chil rea murder case. The two brothers, John and Jule are ia prison suspect¬ ed of taking partin that crime. E. T. Ruuisey* ef Hartwell, killed three wild turkeys at one suot. The three weighed thirty*nina pounds. RAILROADS The trouble between the “Q” rai*- ro ** d company and the strikers is en- ? e,,t an * m,cal > le l,RV,!, f? off Thifc great strike cost the com . panjr $3,000,000. qq, e Kansas City, Memphis & B?r- mingham R. R. are running reclining chair cars free from Birmingham *° Kansas The railway mileage of the coun- was increased last year by no less laid i vi*- in ’ ail u the f forty-seven 6W tF states ^ C * wer and ? territories except two-Rhode Island and Nevada. The Northern Pacific R. R. Co., has been stealing enormous amounts of *"" b er (romth ' «overnmont A ...it has been , entered against tho Lompa- fop j,5 j(X x),000. Examinations for the Railway Mail Service include orthography, reading addresses, coppying, pen- manship,’ arithmetic letter writing and geography of the United States, especially the railway systems in v liich the applicant resides. The agq limitation are 18 and 35 ; honorably discharged and sailors are exceptions and may be examined without A judgement has been rendered a gainst the Richmond Danville Rail¬ road company for $5,000 f**r the acci¬ dental killing of Guissepe Mosco. Gen. Alexander has been re-elected President of the Georgia Central H.R- Patrick Calhoun , general Counsellor, Kissel <5* Co fiscal agents. From the Atlanta Constitution we glean the important information that a great system of railroads, indepen¬ dant of the terminal System, is plan¬ ned for Georgia. The projector is Mr. J. D. Williams, president of the Chatanooga, He is Romo & Columbus road. backed by strong capitalist. The plan is to incorporate various short roads already built, connecting them by building new roads to fill gaps, thus form one continuous sys¬ tem of uniform guage. The road is Carrofton,and already built from Chatanoogt to will soon be Columbus thonce to Albany, Florida connecting with the Savannah, & Western, which will build a road from Quincy, Fla., to Albany. This gives the sys¬ tem a direct route from Cincinnatti te all points in Florida and to the sea. A road will be built from Selina, Ala., ‘hroueh Crrolttn lo AttonU; also Carrol ton to Griffin; thence to Monticello, connecting with the Ma- con & Covington; also from Monti- cello to Sandersville, thus reaching Augusta. From Sandersville will re- q u * re bu * a short road to Savannah, h’ 1 ® tbls R ra,,d £3stem will connect all the cities of Georgia and Florida wlt h Cincinnati and the North-west. - --- ——— 111 ! ■' - CONGRESSIONAL The Nicaragua Canal bill has pass¬ ed the House. Tho lumbermen of tha North-west are opposed to the bill for reducing the tairff on lumber $2 per thousand feet; they claim it will ruin the lum¬ ber trade, as they cannot successful¬ ly compete with Canada. Mr. Reed, of Maine, introduced a bill to prevent filibustering. The Senate tariff bill, disposed ail of 3-£ pages of the amendments by deino* crats rejected by a strict party vote. The indications are that the resolu¬ tion affirming that the Government of the United States must regard with disfavor any connection of any European Government with the con- struction or control of any ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien as inju¬ rious to the just rights and interest of the United States and a menance to their welfare, will be passed by Con¬ gress, and the European Govern¬ ment* notified accordingly. The civil appropriations bill con- tains the following for Georgia : $75, Of'O to inprove the Atlanta barracks; $3,000 to continue triangulations from Atlanta to Mobile: $75,000 to complete the public building at Sa¬ vannah* Senator Riddlcberger presented res olutions adopted by the State Grange of Virginia asking congress to give 55 per cent duty on exported agri¬ cultural products. A North Carolinian tells of a won- derful tree in his State, at Clyde sta¬ tion, Haywood county. It was a pop- Lr tree so large that it made plank enough to build a Church 50 feet long 38 feet wide and 12 high, supplying it with weather boarding, ceiling and •''"rnig. From (lie sarno tre« a fence Wa ’ three-quarters of an acre around the church, and three bniTd logs wer , , eft over> , ar „ e onough , another church of the same diminsions. The ostrich farm at Fullerton, Cal., has 136 full grotfn birds. At the inaugural of Gov Fleming, Florida, . there was the largest gather- ever s«.en in Tallahasse. There was a coluiQn of Union an Confederate veterans, Which the including the regiment Perryy both the outgoing Governor Fleming * a d the incoming ^Gprernor served, \ FARMERS. The farmers in Southwest Georgia setting out pecan and pear trees, and soon the country will be thick Wltb nut a ” d orchards. The farmers of Quitman, Brooks count V. Ga., raise their own meat, e orn, oats, syrup and sugar. Their cottou is a surplus crop. Their bank deposit is $60,000 and they are loan- at 4 cent, A meeting of Alliance men was held in Columbus on the 5tl» at which over onc hundrcd , . , dele , , S ates wcre P re9 ~ representing 6 couutica in Geor¬ gia and 5 in Alabama. Reporters were not admitted, but it is under¬ stood that the meeting was for the purpose of making arrangements to secure supplies for the several Alli- anees and secure capital to establish a warehouse in Columbus to store cotton. Committees were appointed lo confer with merchants and capital¬ ists of Columbus and other places. They publish the following advertise¬ ment : “A merchant or capitalist, whose financial ability justifies a business of $250,000 to supply the Alliance trad¬ ing at Columbus, Ga. AH communi¬ cations strictly confidential. Address John F. Tate , Chairman of Commit¬ tee, Ilatclieclmbec, Ala. Mule Raising. —According to the editor of the South this is the roost profitable of <»toek industries the mule is pccnli arly adapted to our climate and all the varied industries of local commerce, transpertation and farm work he is superior to evry other do¬ mestic animal. The per cent, of loss from any and every source will net 5 per cent, of the capital invested the Mule is easily managed except that one end of it is but seldom tamed. To prevent the crows from pulling up seed corn, take ab*ut half a pint of tar, dissolve it asquiekly as possi¬ ble, put about six quata ot*com, stir in oqc and a half minutes, then dram off the water. Stir in a little Plaster of Pans or some dry matter, which separates the kernals one from An¬ other. Spread till it cools. One ad¬ vantage in tarring is. if a cold wet Strom comes on after planting the corn will not rot. The greatest ad¬ vantage is that you let crows cotne into your field and if you keep out all scare crows, they will destroy the cut worms, without doing any injury to the corn. During the past year Mr. Henry J • Anderson of Pslaski county, on a five horse farm, made 75 bales of cotton 1,100 bushels of corn 500 bushels of oats, abundance of peas and potatoes, and saved 3000 pounds of pork. His cott«n averaged 600 pounds to the bale. Mr. E. P. Ward, of Elbert county, has raised seven bales of cotton on 5 acres. Insect Destkoyer. —“ According to the views of the Vienna scientist these new means to battle, even a- gainst armies of locusts, against which human power so far has been without success, may prove efficient. •Take 1£ ounces sulphate of copper dissolved in warn: water, when dissolv¬ ed pour so much cold with it as will sake 4 quarts. Then slack 3 ounce* of lime and make this 4 quart:; mix this together which will make 2 gal¬ lons of the mixture for destroying in- s*cts and worms. A barrel of the mixture may be kept in the garden to be used when needed. U=se a garden sprinkler in applying the mixture to cabbages, cucumber and melius vines, etc.” South Carolina. A Canal is to built connectin the headwaters of the Ashley with K . o river, which will save over 100 mi in rafting lumber to Ciiarlsto . A company for the purpose was organized away back in 1809. Gov. Richardson did not approve 1 the Clem son bequest, consequently the heirs of the great Calhoun still hold thier property. The phospbat royalty duo the State for rock mined from navagable streams was only $1,506 in Novem- * «*• *<> in Novcmbe 1887. Under the new pension law all pensions henetofore granted are re- yoked. County boards of examiners are appointed to whom applications mQ8 $ b 3 made. If approved, pen- 8ionerg 81 mU8t to tbc State guard the pension will be granted NO. 1. FOREIGN. tn -- «ct The Panama Canal has about cop lapsed and poor old DeLesscps is jjf despair. US The Pope has sent gifts to the I^ft people and a message expressing atTection and sympathy. Bombay, India, has the grandesl railway station in the world. There were a series of earthquake shocks in Nicaraugua on the morning of Dec. 30. Eight persons were kill¬ ed and building suffered considerable The Emperor William receives $750,009 as Emperor of Germany. He lias in addition a large income as King of Prussia., It is reported that $350,000 more will be asked for. The peasants near Donegal, Ireland J armed themselves, fortified Uk houses, destroyed bridges and blo< nt * cd the roads to resist eviction. Gr—i eminent troops and police appean I on the scene to assist the baliffs ar | there is war. The baliffs at first were repulsed and officers were wounded with pitchforks and stones. Finally the soldiers were ordered to fire, and the poor tenents surrendered. Num¬ bers arc lodged in jail. jB? iffht jBUs* Only a Question of Time —Ma¬ bel—There go Mr. Fledgeby and Ethel Gibson. I heard they were staged; are they? Flossie—Not yet, but I think Eth¬ el intends that they shall bs.—N. O. Times. Mr. Nkwlyweb —My dear, what is this procession passing through my back yard? I thought the political excitement was over. Mrs. Newlywed —Why, lovey, that isn’t a procession. It’s the hired girl’s cousins coming to call on her. —Burlington Free Press. Landrum (real estate agent)— This corner lot you may have for $100 a front foot. Bingham (prosperous)—Isn’t that a trifle steep? Landrum—Steep? tfie magnifficent sky No! Just look at over this lot that I don’t charge anything for.— Yenowine’s News. Miss La reside- You eastern worn- en don’t seem to have the life and energy our bet western girls have. Now you can that I look out for num- her one, and mean to get ahead if there’s any show for it. Miss Beaconstreet—That is a good idea of yours—try to get ahead. You have the feet already.—Terre Haute Express, Tiie Anarchist had just come hom with a clean shirt on. “Good heavens, Barlowskia!” ex¬ claimed his wife, sinking into a chair “have you become a blood-sucking capitalist and aristocrat? 1 ’ “No,” he said, “the shirt was w present.” “How does it happen that you hav¬ en’t traded it fof whiskey?” “It was the saloonkeeper who gave it to me,” he replied bitterly.—Chi¬ cago Tribune. An exchange says that in the Arctic regions,when a man desires a divorce he quits the house in anger and does not return for several day*. The wife understands the hint, packs her trunk and leaves. We can under¬ stand Eve packing her trunk and leaves, for her wardrobe was leaves and nothing else, but you can’t make us believe that a woman could get a- long with such flimsy clothing in the Arctic regions. Even her aunt Arctic scorn a wardrobe of that material.—* Texas Siftings. Mrs. Marigold (hostess at a fash¬ ionable reception)—Come, Mr. Swin- burn, let me introduce you to Misa Richgirl. We want you two to fill up a set. Mr. S. (hesitatingly)—I don’t know that 1 care to be introduced to Miss Richgirl. She seems to be so l.aught- y, and all that, don’t ycu know; Fra afraid she wouldn’t care to dance with me. Mrs. M.—Oh, don’t hav'elmy , fears on that score, Mr. Swineburn. Miss she riichgirl isn’t a bit particular whom dances with. Embabrassiso.——A.—-W h»t i» * your prospective bride going to give yOU on New y ear ' s ? ask ed a young society B.—I man of his friend, believe she is going to give me and a * handsomely worked waich case am * n a about ,, ' T , [ K . * haven’t been able to redeem it ye you see I’ll be in sort of a cur when she presents me with the w case.”—Texas Siftings. M Capt. Alexander.who has beery^ uty has colletor been ^transferred for the Ellvjay’di^ to his2| istrict with hcalquate-s at